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PLATE CXXVIL

BUPRESTIS S A L I C I Si

COLEOPTERA.

GENERIC CHARACTER.

Antennae taper, the length of the thorax: Head half concealed.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Head and thorax fine blue. Shells upper half changeable green ;lower part reddish purple.

®Uprestis Salicis : elytri's integerrimis viridis nitens, coleop-

teris au reis bafi viridibus. fab. Gen. Ins.Mant. p. 237.

Eupreflis ekgantula, Schrank. Inf. Aujir. n. 365. p. I 9 vCucuius rubinus. Fourcroy. Ent. Paris . T. I. n. 4. p. 33.

■ 1 -r Richard rubis. Geoff. Inf. Paris F. I. p. 126.

Heputzter Stinkkafer. Weiden-Prachtkafer. Panz. Faun. Inf. Gem ,

This uncommonly beautiful Infect has been described as a native-°f Algiers in Africa , a figure of it is given in the work of Olivier ,*nd another in Panzer’s History of the Insects of Germany ; wefind it also described by Fourcroy and Geoffrory as a native of France ,fint cannot learn that it has been considered as an English speciesbefore this time.

We were not so fortunate as to take this Infect, it was commu-nicated by a person on whose veracity we can rely: he found itthe bark of an o}d willow tree, between Dulwich Common and

I Norwood,